Bilingual in Spanish and English professional, who began her career as an educator brings extensive experience building institutional relations and partnerships with multilateral organizations and state governments and wants to leverage her experience in education and international affairs to promote rights, equity, and justice.
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 Contact Mireia Rothman-Simon
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Area of Expertise: |
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Government, Governance, Reforms
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
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Social, Education, Gender, Youth, Child
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Present
Media Coach, Educational Video Center (EVC). New York, NY.
• Coaches ESL and school social studies high school teachers to develop documentaries and media projects with high school students.
• Works with a team of documentary filmmaking professionals to design social studies curriculum to be taught in New York City public high schools following EVC’s philosophy of nurturing idealism and commitment to social change.
• Develops curriculum that contains documentary filmmaking skills as a means to develop the critical thinking and artistic skills in high schools.
2014-2017
Deputy Head of Delegation. Delegation of Catalonia (Spain) to the United States, Canada and Mexico. New York, NY.
• Represented the Government of Catalonia’s interests in the United States and several state governments such as California and Massachusetts.
• Managed strategic policy building partnerships with UN Agencies, NGOs and academic institutions in North America.
• Supervised and managed the personnel office: Public Affairs Officer, Office Manager, Administrative Assistant and Junior Policy Officers.
• Monitored and reported on political developments in North America and the United Nations.
• Lead interdepartmental coordination within the offices of trade and investment, tourism and culture and language promotion at the NYC offices.
• Planned and organized agendas of government officials for meetings with their counterparts in North America and the United Nations.
2012-2014
Public Affairs Officer. Delegation of Catalonia (Spain) to the United States, Canada and Mexico. New York, NY.
• Managed communication with the general public and the Catalan community in North America promoting governmental transparency.
• Organized events at leading institutions in NYC (MOMA, Carnegie Council, Columbia University, CUNY Graduate Center, Museum of the City of New York) related to international and multilateral affairs.
• Designed, planned and supervised the external communications strategy for the Delegation.
• Represented the Delegation in relevant meetings and conferences.
• Supervised the Delegation’s work in external communications and social media.
• Elaborated internal reports of interest to the Foreign Affairs Secretariat in Catalonia.
• Managed budget and expenses and translated press releases from Catalan and Spanish into English
2011-2012 Content Developer, Pearson Education. New York, NY.
Developed content for professional development manuals for educators
and created assessment tools and activities for the following books:
• Paul R. Burden & David M. Byrd. Methods for Effective Teaching. Sixth Edition. Pearson Education, 2012.
• June R. Chapin. Elementary Social Studies: A Practical Guide. Eighth Edition. Allyn & Bacon, 2012.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (2001-2011)
2002-2010 High School Social Studies & ENL Teacher. Taught students from more than 30 countries.
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Education: |
2009 Fordham University, Graduate School of Education, New York, NY.
M.S. in Education, 4.0 GPA.
2004-05 Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, MA. Completed coursework on: Teaching in Multilingual Classes, and Theory and Practice of Second Language Teaching.
2002-05 Boston University School of Education, Boston, MA. Completed graduate coursework on addressing bilingual issues in education. Awarded merit-based full scholarship.
1999 Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. M.A. and B.A., Political Science and Public Administration.
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Available for: |
- Consulting assignments
- Job opportunities
- Being headhunted – make me an offer
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Years of Experience:
10-15 years |
Highest Qualification:
Masters |
Languages:
English, Spanish, Catalan |
Nationality:
Spain
, United States
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